Sebastian Haase wrote:
Hi, Following up: There was never any response to Francesc proposal ! I thought it sounded pretty good - as he argued: Still a good (late but acceptable) time to clean things up ! (I like just the fact that it removes the "ugly" doubling of having two: arr.dtype and arr.dtypecode )
I think this proposal came during busy times and was not able to be looked at seriously. Times are still busy and so it is difficult to know what to do wih it. I think there is validity to what he is saying. The dtypedescr was only added in December while the dtype was there in March, so the reason for it is historical. I would not mind changing it so that .dtype actually returned the type-descriptor object. This would actually make things easier. It's only historical that it's not that way. One issue is that .dtypechar is a simple replacement for .typecode() but .dtype.char would involve two attribute lookups which may not be a good thing. But, this might not be a big deal because they should probably be using .dtype anyway.
Is this still on the table !?
I'm willing to look at it, especially since I like the concept of the dtypedescr much better.
In my struggle for getting consistent behaviours with data types, I've ended with a new proposal for treating them. The basic thing is that I suggest to deprecate .dtype as being a first-class attribute and replace it instead by the descriptor type container, which I find quite more useful for end users.
I think this is true... I was just nervous to change it. But, prior to a 1.0 release I think we still could, if we do it quickly...
The current .dtype type will be still accessible (mainly for developers) but buried in .dtype.type.
Briefly stated:
current proposed ======= ======== .dtypedescr --> moved into .dtype .dtype --> moved into .dtype.type .dtype.dtypestr --> moved into .dtype.str new .dtype.name
I actually like this proposal a lot as I think it gives proper place to the data-type descriptors.
I say we do it, very soon, and put out another release quickly. -Travis